Elderly patients admitted with high glucose levels are more likely to die in hospital

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

A two-country hospital study of 808 elderly patients found a strong association between high, undiagnosed blood glucose in non-diabetic patients and increased hospital death rates, according to the March issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

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